"I Am Not Butch" - by Arran Rigney.

I've just been watching Star Trek, hence the play on "I Am Not Spock".

For some reason, I'm always labeled as "butch", or when we discuss future plans, I'm either "the cat lady" or "the lesbian". I just thought I'd whap out a quick post about this, because I honestly don't understand where this labeling began.

I spend most of my time with guys, granted. This isn't because I'm a lesbian (actually, if I were a lesbian, I think I'd choose to spent more time around the female species...), or because I'm horribly butch, it's because I honestly find guys to be better company. I've always found women to be a bit too catty for me - then again, that's probably just a product of going to an all girls' school. Of course, I've got a few really close friends who are female - most of which are probably readers of this blog - or were, before we started to get all deep, but overall I'm just more comfortable around guys. It's just the way I work.

I am more than happy to go to a fairly heavy gig, jump in a pit if I'm not worried about piercings, or run out for a game of basketball with the boys. My favourite movies are the Die Hard collection, I frequently tell girlies to man up, and I currently prefer men's clothes because they're comfy and the shoulders aren't hideous.

But I cry at Die Hard, I cry at Winnie The Pooh, I talk to my cat like she's a baby, and indie kid & facial-hair-piercings-guy are my motivation for getting the bus in the morning.
Hence, I don't think I'm all that butch, to be honest.

So, there we go - now can we stop labeling me as the lesbian-cat-lady? I think I'm fairly capable of having a relationship with a male without butching out.

- a.